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MrDuck is my kinda dude. Call of Duty = crack, for me. I couldn't care less than these games are linear and scripted. We've known this from Call of Duty 1 on. That's why I like them, because they give you a different experience from non-linear gameplay. And regardless of its linearity, it's very much immersive.

To which I replied:
Naively superlative.
No, "No russian" will not become the most notorious scene in gaming, though many journos will use it as a reference and generate facepalms in their readers for the years to come. Yes, it was interesting to see such a narrative choice coming from the biggest gaming blockbuster of the year, but it will have little impact on the maturation of games as art / narrative media.

That's not what they said. "Most notorious" would seem pretty accurate, at least for the moment - but that doesn't say anything about the level's "impact on the maturation of games".

What's all this hubbub about the multiplayer? I tried it for about 10-20 minutes and got bored. I've talked about this before on this forum; I just do not understand the appeal of multiplayer. Coop is a different story, though, because you're playing with a friend or relative together in the same room, either against each other or in concert. Online multiplayer consists of people running around like mad in circles and shooting. There is no point. You see an enemy player run past or pop out and you shoot. Took me about 20 minutes at most to get bored of this. Add to this the fact that maps don't make any sense. They're circular, there's no progress, people just run like laboratory mice in a maze. Somehow I managed to get four kills. Whoop. The other twenty or so times I was just shot in the back out of nowhere. Quoth the Homer, "Bo-ring".

So we'll probably see two sides of the coin, eh?, the "good guys" vs. the "bad guys". Btw...after seeing some CoD retrospective, I just realized Capn Price's in the very first game :O Does he appear in CoD 2?

What's all this hubbub about the multiplayer? I tried it for about 10-20 minutes and got bored. I've talked about this before on this forum; I just do not understand the appeal of multiplayer. Coop is a different story, though, because you're playing with a friend or relative together in the same room, either against each other or in concert. Online multiplayer consists of people running around like mad in circles and shooting. There is no point. You see an enemy player run past or pop out and you shoot. Took me about 20 minutes at most to get bored of this. Add to this the fact that maps don't make any sense. They're circular, there's no progress, people just run like laboratory mice in a maze. Somehow I managed to get four kills. Whoop. The other twenty or so times I was just shot in the back out of nowhere. Quoth the Homer, "Bo-ring".

Single player forever! Rant over.

This = free for all. Which is fine, that's the whole point of that gamemode, some straight up no strategy shoot whatever moves fun.

Try Domination or Search and Destroy if you want something with real depth to it. If all you're doing in those gamemodes is running around and shooting whatever "pops out," then you're definitely doing something wrong... although granted it sounds like you don't really care enough to devote time into it.

poroshin:
I don't completely agree with you, but I do think that the popular multiplayer games on consoles are only retreading ground pioneered and perfected by earlier games on the PC, Quake probably being the most influential FPS ever as far as online multiplayer goes. Not much has changed, except the audience. What is old and tired to me, is fresh and new to them.

Btw...after seeing some CoD retrospective, I just realized Capn Price's in the very first game :O Does he appear in CoD 2?

Yeah, but I think it's just a namesake. What COD retrospective?

Originally Posted by Taffer36

This = free for all. Which is fine, that's the whole point of that gamemode, some straight up no strategy shoot whatever moves fun.

Try Domination or Search and Destroy if you want something with real depth to it. If all you're doing in those gamemodes is running around and shooting whatever "pops out," then you're definitely doing something wrong... although granted it sounds like you don't really care enough to devote time into it.

I was playing Team Deathmatch. I'll try the other modes later, maybe. Why can't they make multiplayer like the single player game, where you team up with a bunch of guys online to take on actual levels and AI enemies. A sort of massive coop.